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What are varieties of English?

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PHONETIC and PHONOLOGICAL
1- Two types of varieties
and: Geographical variations, age, social and class difference, style
of English

They usually have the same set of phonemes in both accents, but some or
Phonetic differences: all the phonemes are realised differently. There can be differences as
well in stress and intonation, but that doesn’t change the meaning.

They can be divided into segmental and suprasegmental.

SEGMENTAL: the most noticeable type of difference is when one accent
Phonological differences: has a different number of phonemes (and hence of phonemic contrasts)
from another. In addition, some accents differ from others from having
more phonemes and phonemic contrasts.

Another difference is where without affecting the overall set of

Phonological differences: phonemes and contrasts, a phoneme has a distribution in one accent that
is different from the distribution of the same phoneme in another accent.

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This used to be related to dialectology. In which researchers used to be

send to different places (mostly rural areas) to investigate diferences in
Geographical variation: vocabulary, pronunciation, among tohers. Nowadays the geographic
variation has to do with sociolinguistics due to some weaknesses found in
dialectology.

It tries to cover urban speech with a well-balanced range coverage of

ages and social classes. To study English varieties it’s necessary to have a
Dialectology:
large perspective towards the differences between some of the largest
groups of speakers of English.
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of: American and Scotish

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